Rising celebrity White Home Correspondent and Govt Editor for Steve Bannon’s Conflict Room podcast, Natalie Winters, was barred this week from becoming a member of Washington D.C.’s Nationwide Press Membership, regardless of her internet hosting one of many nation’s most circulated podcasts and persistently breaking information tales promoted by congressmen, Elon Musk, and President Trump.
On Wednesday, April 2, Winters shared a screenshot of the obscure letter she acquired from the Nationwide Press Membership, stating with out rationale that Winters did “not meet the {qualifications} for membership presently.”
The Nationwide Press Membership denied my membership utility after evaluation by their Board of Governors.
I “don’t meet the {qualifications} for membership.”
I co-host one of many largest reveals on the correct, Presidents and Congressmen share my work, and I’ve a White Home Press move. pic.twitter.com/bCmEAZ7Ujc
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) April 2, 2025
On Friday, April 4, Winters uncovered to her over 625,000 followers on X that the Nationwide Press Membership partnered with a chosen overseas mission of the Chinese language Communist Social gathering referred to as the “Confucius Institute U.S. Middle,” which serves as an “essential a part of China’s abroad propaganda set-up,” in accordance with high-level CCP officers.
Winters uncovered that The Nationwide Press Membership’s Govt Director William McCarren served on the Confucius Institute U.S. Middle’s Advisory Board and personally hosted the Institute’s annual gala in Washington, D.C.
In gentle of those doubtful revelations, Winters wrote,
Think about my membership utility to a CCP-collaborating group formally withdrawn.
America First!
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) April 4, 2025
In March 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported,
Conflict Room White Home Correspondent and Govt Editor Natalie Winters has develop into the topic of a global smear marketing campaign merely for exercising her freedom to carry sturdy, fact-based views whereas sporting glamorous clothes.
Winters has lately loved a meteoric rise to worldwide fame and status after first working as an investigative journalist for The Nationwide Pulse and as a Conflict Room correspondent. Through the pandemic, Winters was a prime scholar on the extremely rigorous College of Chicago, the place she graduated in solely three years.
Winters concurrently served as a watchdog for the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Nationwide Institute of Well being, and World Well being Group, exposing former WHO lead Covid researcher Peter Daszak as a member of the Chinese language Communist Social gathering payroll, his 71 donations to Joe Biden in 2020, and his longtime misdirection techniques meant to steer the general public away from any info in regards to the Wuhan lab leak that began a pandemic.
Whereas the Pretend Information avoids any reporting on Winters’s investigative findings, they as a substitute try to scandalize Winters for dressing boldly.
Right this moment, even right-leaning shops such because the New York Put up and The Day by day Mail have piled onto the tried assassination of Winters’s character, referring to Winters’s skilled apparel “skimpy” and “inappropriate,” respectively.
In April, Winters fought again in opposition to these baseless headlines, arguing that her apparel is solely female, and that journalistic publications ought to give attention to Winters’s blockbuster reporting as a substitute.
Winters wrote on X, “Identified for my skimpy outfits”… Excuse me? I’m sporting a blazer. I’m truly recognized for numerous unique scoops (cited by congressmen and presidents) and internet hosting the Conflict Room when Bannon went to jail – all earlier than I turned 24. I’m by no means going to decorate like a person. F off.”
“Identified for my skimpy outfits”…
Excuse me? I’m sporting a blazer.
I’m truly recognized for numerous unique scoops (cited by congressmen and presidents) and internet hosting the Conflict Room when Bannon went to jail – all earlier than I turned 24.
I’m by no means going to decorate like a person. F off. https://t.co/CHkEGrVjM0
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) April 3, 2025
The Gateway Pundit reported that Winters, together with dozens of well-known political podcasters, lately gained unique entry to White Home officers and cupboard secretaries on the White Home’s inaugural “Podcast Row” occasion.
Assuredly, even whereas the CCP-affiliated Nationwide Press Membership refuses Winters’s membership as a result of her political beliefs, Winters and her fellow New Media voices stay poised to bear the fruits of our New Media panorama – with The White Home lately usurping the far-left White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation’s management of the White Home Press Briefing Room seating chart and each day press pool rotation.
